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I can't let this year pass without doffing my cap to Neil Innes who died yesterday. Founder member of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, architect of the Rutles and Rutland Weekend TV and the person writing the songs for the Monty Python films. A member of an illustrious roll-call of British absurdists and arch-parody-mongers.

The list of people that I actually like just gets shorter and shorter these days.

Self-released 1998 CD from Swedish painter, cartoonist and sound artist Ronnie Sundin, an early step along his path from relentless noise to lysergic near-silence. He's still using the Bad Kharma name here, though he'll drop it in a few years and then drop almost everything else to become a more conceptual Scandinavian relative of Sukora or tac. This album has plenty of sound on it, though.

There was a comment left that reminded me of this release. It is certainly not to be confused with the Michigan project. These are "Aliens from the Planet Puchin Pring who look and sound like Japanese girls!" Well technically that's not true given that they are neither alien nor female. Presumably, it's an actual band with a single full of parody grind-blurt because they had an afternoon free.

Ron Orovitz was fairly active in the 00s, then seems to have hung it all up. A common trajectory, it seems. While he was recording as Iovae, he made a terrific 3" for Chondritic Sound and tapes/CDRs for Drone Disco, Skeleton Dust, Hung Like a Horse?! and other memorable imprints. This untitled thing was sent out into the world by the incomparable American Tapes label in 2003 as a 50-copies CDR.

The always-brilliant John Olson (Spykes, Wolf Eyes, Henry & Hazel Slaughter etc) using a one-off nom de glurp for this edition-of-10 CDR released in an LP sleeve on his own American Tapes label back in 2000. Sloppy improvised electronic autodidact gunk by the damn master.

One of the first cassettes by Something to Burn, a noise-rock trio from Nurnberg formed by Joseph B. Raimond and Ralf Lexis (of Doc Wor Mirran) with someone called Gerhard Heimrath. Released on Raimond's label, Empty Records around 1990.

If I understand the situation correctly, there was some mastering error with the John Wiese/Dynasty Yellow Swans "Basement Ghost/Castle EVP" 7-inch. To rectify that, some copies (or maybe every copy?) of the 7" came with this Helicopter sampler CDR inside, which begins with the two sides of the single and then includes tracks from then-current Wiese-related Helicopter projects like Sissy Spacek, Wiese & Koh, Amps For Christ, Weise & Guilty Connector, Bastard Noise and LHD, plus one track from Wiese' "Soft Punk" LP.

Brutalomania is a side-project of Manuel M. Cubas (who you might also know as Mixturizer (he's very good by the way). This is followed by Eric Wood delivering some righteous indignation upon the arses of people who celebrate with fridges and freezers full of the corpses of formally sentient beings. Merry Fucking Christmas!

As far as I know, the smaller dragonmom was by and large Davin Brainard on his own sweet lonesome. However, this also has Chad Gilchrist and (thee) Aaron Dilloway alongside for the ride. All aboard for gorgeous gorgeous noise noise!

I seem to believe that the "Noise Camp" was the base for the time STEREO / PDM noisemongers ... don't know exactly who is participating on this recording but it's in the same vein as the other recent posts.

The RnR in question is Jackie Stewart (a key member of Smegma who also recorded as Oblivia) collaborating with Kohei Gomi in a full-on plundered sound noise absurd-fest.

This is a CD released on Second Layer Records in 2010. Second Layer was a beautiful record shop, distro and occasional label based in London. I used to buy mail order from Pete a lot but only got to go to the shop once. Presumably eleven years ago, Sonic Youth were playing at the Camden Roundhouse doing a 20th anniversary Daydream Nation thing (although everything before that would have been better). I got tickets for the third (additional) night with support from Sutcliffe Jügend. That in itself would be a great thing apart from the fact that the people on the desk did not have a clue what to do with them and turned the sound of messrs Tomkins and Taylor into mud, but at least I got to see them I suppose. Anyway, whilst down there for the weekend I eventually found the shop and put about £250 over the counter ... everything from a signed 1st edition mint Nurse With Wound LP for £12 (Pete hadn't clocked the authenticity on that one) and £20 on a boxed Jackie-O Motherfucker tour tambourine (seriously). Anyway, thanks for asking.

A short-lived project form Shinichi Shikada full of extremely effective harsh noise and block-leveling Industrial pounding. Very very good indeed! This is all that I have by him ... any help improving that situation would be greatly appreciated!

"Original cassette was 'Unformal Sound Report #5', which was released at 5/Feb/'91 and contained 2 long pieces. Each parts were reformed concerning each themes." I have no idea what Unformal Sound Report was ...

Deep-underground American noise by Moke Grotton, aka Mike Pratt from Philadelphia. Discogs lists two tracks on each side of this tape, but when I ripped it I didn't hear any pauses between tracks, so you get each side unbroken. Released by the Brazilian label No Lyrics in 2006. This artist seems to have only been active between 2005 and 2007, then I guess he put the contact mics away and got a real job.

Suzuki Shunya appeared in the Japanese noise scene during the early 90s as "an example of non-personality". He appears to have managed this quite successfully as very little was known about him at the time and nothing at all since. There's influence from the European industrialists with a touch of Schimpfluch about it but it all stands up in it's own right.

C52 released on Sounds For Consciousness Rape at some point in the early 1990s.

PDM were Warren Defever (who is in the brilliant His Name Is Alive) and Davin Brainard (with both of them running the time STEREO label) alongside Dion Fischer (who appeared in a number of time STEREO outfits as well as garage-blues punkers The Dirtbombs). I'm Sore was Ian Masters who seems to have been in the early incarnation of Leeds shoegazers Pale Saints ... and how you get from there to the Michigan Noise Illuminati is absolutely beyond me! And the tracks were recorded in Osaka ... now there's a man who couldn't wait to get out of Yorkshire. The two PDM tracks were recorded in Holland and Detroit with thanks to Koji Tano which answers a non-existent question.

Double CDR of American harsh noise by two obscure artists from Oregon, both of whom were active in the 00s but seem to have slowed down (or stopped?) several years ago. I think, though I'm not certain, that both Cracked Dome (aka Gene Symptoms) and IDX1274 were also members of The Sunken. Released in 2006 by Barfing Dagger Re-Recordings, a name which must have meant something to somebody at some point.

Noise Work Shop is literally that. When Koji Tano toured he would open up / participate in opportunities to experiment with the available electronics. This example is listed as Detroit in February 1999. time STEREO have uploaded a video of such a thing in Rotterdam in September of 1999. So, erm, yeah, whatever. And you get Princess Dragon-Mom who are an excellent trio who orbited within the time STEREO universe.

Three 1997 concerts from California, presented as four tracks on a CD put out by Drunken Fish in 1998. Drunken Fish was a strange and fascinating label that put out experimental and psychedelic rock, drone and noise by legends like Bardo Pond, Roy Montgomery, Sferic Experiment, Starfuckers, Birchville Cat Motel, Children's Television Workshop... run by the former bassist of the hardcore band Verbal Assault, believe it or not!

The first track is presumably taken from the HP Lovecraft poem. Quite fitting really given that if you play it forwards you can hear the devil calling. The reverse just makes me wonder what Ernest did to deserve it.